Saturday Tweets: #FlyingLess, VHS Making a Comeback and Alanis Morissette Impressions

...sts https://t.co/Dpa9b7grCA via @LitZippo — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 20, 2018 In the 1850s farmers in Hälsingland in Sweden built astounding neoclassical wooden palaces for themselves. The level of sophistication and the workmanship is unlike anything seen since. Seven remain today. This is a two-and-a-half story farmhouse for two families, ca. 1857. pic.twitter.com/a5B7J0aHX1 — Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) March 19, 2018 VHS is making a co...

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Making It

...ctions for a wide range of projects, from building a 99-cent solar oven to making your own laundry soap to instructions for brewing beer. Making It is the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive and eminently doable. Our goal in this book was to provide really stripped down, simple projects that use only inexpensive, easy to source materials. We also tried to use the same materials and ingredients over and over a...

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Saturday Tweets: Bird Eyesight, Making and Marginalia

...ly obscure memes pic.twitter.com/qXkJg16iCV — max ✨ (@naxxramen) August 27, 2017 The meaning of "premium mediocre" https://t.co/PKuaU2pcVK — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 30, 2017 Beautiful flag by Violet Juno in the last Opposable Thumbs podcast https://t.co/UzKG3lNqRt. And thanks for the shout out @robdeadtech! pic.twitter.com/vZVoNDgTtm — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) August 31, 2017 The August WolfCatWorkshop Newsletter is out now. Chec...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Crickets and Making Coffee

...ecipe Re-Run http://t.co/zYOyLPuW6p — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 15, 2015 Top 33 Coffee Projects http://t.co/eWy4mIES5L — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 15, 2015 Sitting for long periods doesn't make death more imminent, study suggests http://t.co/JoT6NiV3x8 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 15, 2015 We love this book by @ThomasRainerDC – the very best book on landscape design! https://t.co/cCIJ2a99mJ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) Oc...

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Saturday Tweets That Should Have Been Posted on Saturday but Are, Instead, Posted on Sunday Evening Because I Was at a Met Opera Telecast (Dialogues of the Carmelites) Followed by a Wedding and Was Too Tired by the End of the Day to Sit at a Computer and Come up with Clever Titles

...scientist warns https://t.co/GPocRRlSQ9 — Tom Butler (@TheTomButler) May 7, 2019 pic.twitter.com/YvGi4GO8aQ — Cursed Architecture (@CursedArchitect) May 7, 2019 It's time to speak about batshit jobs. @davidgraeber already coined #bullshitjobs to speak of pointless, meaningless and socially harmful jobs. #batshitjobs are jobs that actively contribute to environmental and climate breakdown. > — bue rubner (@BueRubner) May 6, 2019 Shooting hoops...

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